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Hey Albert,
Not sure if its me or the site, but I can't get into the "General Viper Discussion" section.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
BIG ROB!!!

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Enjoy your BIG   4   0  !

Take care and See ya soon

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Happy Birthday Jon!
Hope you had a great one.

See you soon.

Lance

I need to get my viper into Dan Cragin in the very near future.   
We all know the routine....2 cars up, drop off one, one car back, 2 cars home.   

Since my wife won't drive to LA, I'm trying to be creative.

So my thought is that if someone has their car there and needs a ride up to pick it up, I'll take you, if you bring me home.  With some planning, hopefully someone else will be heading up to drop off their car about the time mine is done and I can catch a ride up and bring them back home......etc   etc

Anyone ??

I decided to do the oil pan baffle upgrade in preparation for more track events.

The oil pan baffle prevents engine oil starvation by keeping the oil in the center of the pan where the oil pickup is.

Without the swinging baffle gates installed in the pan, the oil is free to flow from cavity to cavity and under some track conditions, the oil could be forced away from the oil pickup and cause severe engine failure.

This was a very easy engine upgrade which only took about 90 minutes to do.

Shown below is all that is needed:   10 quarts oil, Oil filter, Baffle kit.  I bought the Oil Pan Baffle kit from Dave C.  www.davesbigbrakes.com



I put the car up on my lift, but this can also be done with the car on jack stands.



I drained the oil from the pan and removed / replaced the oil filter.

Once the oil was all out, I removed the 11 mm bolts which hold the pan on (30 of them)



The pan came right off.  Be very careful not to damage the re-useable gasket.



There are 8 phillips screws holding in the sheet metal tray which need to be removed. 



Once the tray is out, you can see the 3 sections of the pan, and the oil pickup screen.



The replacement tray is shown above, with the OEM tray below.



The swinging baffle gates allow the oil to flow, but helps to keep oil in the center section since the gates only swing inward.







It is very important to make sure that the gates swing freely.  The front gate was hitting the oil screen screws.

I filed the bottom corners of the gate back to clear the screws.



Once I was sure that the gate swung freely, I put the new tray in and screwed it down. Make sure that you put the tray in the right way.  Notice the small hole in the bottom right where the Dip Stick goes through.

I put a drop of Blue Loctite on each of the screws.



The oil pan is now ready to install.



I put a small amount of Permatex RTV silicon on the 4 corner seams to prevent any oil leaks.



Shown above is a close up of the seam that needs to be sealed.







I cleaned the gasket and installed the pan.

It was pretty cool seeing 3 of our local club members with their garages in the national Viper Magazine !   Congratulations and Nice work.

On another note,  California has 2,887 Vipers !!!  But only 557 are VCA members....What's up with that

Wishing everyone a safe and Happy 4th of July ! ! ! ^1 ^1 ^1 ^1 ^1 ^1

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The K-1 Speed event was Awesome!!    This was a SoCal VCA Member's only sponsored event and was worth every penny of our annual membership !

Dan and Cathy along with the staff at K-1 put on an incredibly organized event which was filled with some great racing, spectacular lunch, and more great memories with friends in the '07 year.

Wishing all the father's a Happy Father's Day !   ^1

I like the new website header !!!!!!!!!!!!!   Very cool !  <1  ^2


Thanks for increasing the maximum attachment size Albert !

It was a small group of 5 Vipers this morning in Malibu.
Weather turned out to be "Just another beautiful day" .

The SoCal Viper Club made it's annual run to Big Bear this past Saturday. 
We had 35 Vipers come together from all parts of So Cal. 

A special thanks to Oh Great One for once again planning and coordinating this run for all of us to enjoy !

Here are just some of the pictures I took.   As always you can see all the pictures at www.kouchicentral.com

Looks like we got a new server up on line.... very cool.

Gallery is empty, How much room do we have now?

Chip Foose invited the So Cal Club back to his facility for another visit.
It was a great turnout with close to 50 members and 26 Vipers
A special thanks to Chip, Lynne and Carson for touring us through and treating us to a very special day.





















After the visit at Foose?s, we headed back to our house for Taco?s








A special Happy Birthday to new member Chuck and his wife, Susan














Richard and my Dad provided entertainment



I need to give a special thanks to my Dad for helping me out all day.  He set up chairs, picked up our food, cooked up some special appetizers and even managed to play a little music.   
All in all, it made for a very enjoyable and memorable day for me and I hope all who attended had a good time as well.

More pictures can be found here    www.kouchicentral.com

Happy Mother's Day to all !

Happy Birthday Phil !!!!

You are a great friend and a huge reason the Viper Family is so much fun to be a part of.  Have a great Birthday with many more to come

A special Thanks to Dave aka Newport Viper  for taking the time to coordinate and set up the Meguiar's detail day.   <1

These are just a few of the pictures taken.  The rest are posted at http://www.kouchicentral.com/



Meguiar's has been making products since 1901 and is still a family owned and run business.

We learned about the many products that they make and how to properly apply them to get the show car results we all want.





Mike did a great job explaining and teaching us how to care for our paint and cars.











A viper that was in need of some work was chosen.







The results were amazing.

Well it looks like another beautiful weekend coming up.
So far it looks like a pretty good group of Vipers will be out for the SUNDAY run this weekend.

Dan and Cathy
Richard & Charlene
Lance & Lori
Mc Mike
Rev
Tom & Shawn
Art & Cynthia
Joel Larson
Phil
Rob & Cathy
Stephanie
Kala & Dai
Mike & Toni
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HEMOTOX ? ? ?




OC guys will be meeting at 7:15am at Spaghettini's in Seal Beach. and leaving around 7:30 for Malibu 
405 N
Exit  Seal Beach Blvd. and head straight across intersection.
Spaghettini's is right on the corner.


You L.A. guys better rally and get out for a change !!!

See ya on Sunday!

Hey everyone,
We are going to meet on the 2nd SUNDAY  4/15/07 this month for a change.

Same deal,  meet at 8:30 am,  Coogies breakfast at 9:00, followed by a run on Mulholland Dr.

Seems like there a lot of guys that miss the Sat time due to work, family obligations, etc...   So hopefully the change to Sunday this month brings out more Snakes.

So who's coming out?

Will you and the Grass Roots be performing at the Cerritos Performing Arts Center in April 2008 with the Loving Spoonful

If so,  I'm ordering tickets !!!

Lance